Bryan Pringle
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This play is set in the quiet town of Messina in Sicily, where two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero, meet at the house of Leonato, Hero's father and Beatrice's uncle. Benedick and Beatrice engage in a war of witty exchanges, while Claudio and Hero pledge their love for each other and decide to get married. However, in an unexpected turn of events, Hero and Claudio are estranged and Benedick and Beatrice confess their love....
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison is assigned the case of a prostitute murdered by a serial killer, a first-ever for a female DCI. Immendiately she comes up against a blue wall of resistance, gradually uncovering secerets that muddy the case.--Container
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English
Description
It's 1939, the heyday of radio. Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle who star in a spine-tingling series of terror tales, are getting married. The wedding is set to take place in the Abbot family mansion, where Great Aunt Kate lives amidst howling storms, flickering candles, secret passages, and deranged servants. Since Larry, whom she raised from childhood, seems to be the least likely of being a werewolf, she's leaving her fortune to him. But he has to...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In 1950s post-war England, the working classes faced an unappetizing choice between drudgery, degradation, and despair or the materialist blandishments of deadening suburban affluence. Arthur is the prototypical 'angry young man'--outspoken, dissatisfied with the status quo, rebelling against stifling class distinctions--insolent and self-confident, his high wages enable his disdain for following orders and his hard drinking, red-blooded weekends....
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who finds solace in real ale, classical music and difficult crosswords. Together with his able Sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his considerable intellect and passion for the truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford.
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